Actually, they are routers for telephony. So each time you make a phone call or send a text message, several small signaling messages fly across the back plane of several of these. My job is to test new features and try to break stuff so our developers can fix bugs before new software is released to customers.

Ok, maybe not making fun of, but at least allowing it to be known that it's ancient!

Old school is the best school, baby! This is one of those things where it's actually correct to say "they don't make them like they used to," because they really don't. There's a reason mech keyboards are becoming huge at the moment, it all traces back to the Model M.

Anyway, history lesson over, back to my boring job, haha.

P.S. That mouse in my picture -- that's also a nearly 20 years old model by now.